Civilization - Elaine Stritch

I got the song, we got to Philadelphia

And they didn’t cut it

I sang it eight a week

For over a year and a half

This is the original choreography

Each morning, a missionary advertise with neon sign

He tells the native population that civilization is fine

And three educated savages holler from a bamboo tree

That civilization is a thing for me to see

Bongo, bongo, bongo

I don’t wanna leave the Congo

Oh!

No, no, no, no, no

Bingo, bango, bongo

I’m so happy in the jungle

I refuse to go

Don’t want no bright lights

False teeth

Doorbells

Landlords

I make it clear

That no matter how they coax him

I’ll stay right here

They hurry like savages to get aboard an iron train

And though it’s smokey and it’s crowded

They’re too civilized to complain

When they’ve got two weeks vacation

They hurry to vacation ground

They swim and they fish

But that’s what I do all year round

Bongo, bongo, bongo

I don’t wanna leave the Congo

Oh!

No, no, no, no, no

Ba-ba-ba-bingo, bango, bongo

I’m so happy in the jungle

I refuse to go

Don’t want no high heels

Butt packs

Haircut

Nail pick

Padded brassiere

I got my spears

So no matter how they coax him

I’m going to stay right here

They have something called the nuclear bomb

So I think I’ll stay where I am

Civilization

I’ll stay right here

I don’t go there

Laugh it’s all